Undoing Ties: Political Philosophy at the Waning of the State

Undoing Ties claims to offer an answer to the question of what happens when the ties between traditional political institutions and citizens are being undone. The basic aim of the book is to offer an introductory and accessible overview of those paradigms and theories that are specifically concerned with the irreducible plurality of life forms and seek to understand how this challenge should be faced. The authors adopt an interdisciplinary approach to foreground how scholars in different areas (such as political philosophy, jurisprudence, sociology and anthropology) deal with one of the key characterizing elements of today's political scenario, that is to say, the reviviscence of sub-state and supra-state groups as crucial political actors vis-à-vis the state.

Dr Mariano Croce is FWO Pegasus Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, University of Antwerp, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Law and Public Affairs of the Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He has published Self-sufficiency of Law: A Critical-institutional Theory of Social Order (2012) and, with Andrea Salvatore, The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt (2013). He is also the author of Che cos’è un’istituzione (2011), La conquista dello spazio giuridico (2009) and Sfere di dominio. Democrazia e potere nell’era globale (2008).

Andrea Salvatore is Post-Doc Research Fellow in Political Philosophy at Sapienza-University of Rome. With Mariano Croce, he is the author of The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt (2013). He is also the author of Giustizia in contesto. La filosofia politica di Michael Walzer (2010) and Il pacifismo (2010).

Part 1: After the state

1. THEORIES OF GOVERNMENT
1.1. New Forms of liberalism
1.2. Metamorphoses of government
1.3. The legacy of the constitution

2. JUSTICE AND INJUSTICES
2.1. New paradigms of justice
2.2. Sovereignty in transition
Part 2: Above the state

1. THEORIES OF GLOBALISATION
1.1. The contraposition between national and global
1.2. The interpenetration between national and global

2. ORDER AND DEMOCRACY IN THE GLOBAL SCENARIO
2.1. Cosmopolitan ideals and global democracy
2.2. The law of subalterns
2.3. Back to the state?
Part 3: Without the state

1. THE TWILIGHT OF THE ONLY LEGISLATOR
1.1. Multicultural politics
1.2. The plurality of orders

2. LAW, MARKET AND THE WITHDRAWAL OF POLITICS
2.1. Juridification or de-politicisation?
2.2. Cultural identities vis-à-vis the market